Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kidding. That happened to me last winter, only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President was a little on the simple side...
Today's young woman considers herself a lot more sophisticated than her counterparts of the past, but she is no more proof against the "roguery and hypocrisy of seducers." So warned Pope Pius, who explained that the modern girl "believes herself able, with impunity, to read everything, to see everything, to try everything . . . She is disarmed before the peril...
Student Council voted to charter AYD early last spring, pending usual faculty approval. President Wilbur K. Jordan, however, withheld faculty consent until he had on hand satisfactory proof of AYD's autonomy. Final documents were not exchanged until last May--and not until the status of all political groups and all club memberships total had been eagle-eyed by Student Council--and AYD became the last of a half-dozen new groups in Radcliffe Yard...
...Davenport, Iowa City, Oxford and Grinnell, Harry Truman stepped out on the rear platform, with Margaret beside him, to give them hell. "Them" was the Republicans. "The issue is the people against the special interests," he said. Proof? "All you need to do is review the record of this Republican Soth Congress...
...seemed no likelihood that the feud could end. Then Daniel, by an act of moral renunciation which was the measure of his strength, voluntarily abandoned both his claim to the land and his claim to revenge. To young Kinloch Armstrong this action is simple cowardice. He finds the ultimate proof of the Gerrards' 'original fraud. But then Kinloch, in his turn, is repulsed by the discovery that his own family has been involved in the death of an innocent man. He and his kin have sinned...